The people stuck running DX9 will never be happy due to to many compromises having to be made to make it playable, there is no value in it, and it will look and play worse than the original IL-2. The people with new systems won't be happy either because of the time and resources wasted trying to flog the dead horse, and the compromises made to get it to run on old systems!

Craig

I think the trouble is that a large portion of their userbase is in Russia, and a significant portion of those users are still rocking XP. I agree by the way, DX9 support for a sim that's supposed to last the next 10 years is pretty pointless, but I think they're afraid to make that hard choice in a niche market.

The update was a whos who of how desperate the game is, the nauseating flatus that poured from the mouths and keyboards thereafter did it for me though. Luthier and co have turned failure into an art form and they have clearly convinced quite a few that its art worth collecting.

No more 1C forums for me. I had my say in the middle of the love-in so I'm probably banned to perdition anyway. Game is off my system and until somebody who I know and trust tells me its worth putting back thats it.

Yup, sums it up pretty well for me too. Also, some people seems to think (still!) that the patch is coming out any day now, I couldn't believe some posts I read in the patch thread, lol! That patch is further away then ever before, and I'm almost starting to believe Tree_UK's prophecy that the patch will actually be Battle of Moscow...almost.

It's not the rope, it's that damn albatross...

You see I take the opposite view...I can fly at will both on and off line, but there are things that need fixing for sure. My fear is that so much will be striped away so as to allow the older systems to function with the game.

That would explain these nasty bird mite bites I have.

What flavour is it?

I don't have any problem running it either and have only had a CTD maybe 1 in 3 times of playing, which I find odd that folks with much better rigs are having so many problems. It makes me wonder if with this patch are all the testers having the same issues or only some of them and that is why they are so baffled, back in the day with 1946 there were certain Drivers that worked well and others that would completely bork the game and it was only by talking with each other that we came to a consensus on which ones were safe and which to skip, I wonder how many of the team are using similar rigs. You really need a cross section of the communities PC specs to test so you can see every possible outcome. I play with my vid card settings often to get the best performance, but those settings don't work across the board with all my games.